Pink was the first thing I saw, and the last thing I wanted to see at the Becoming An Outdoors-Woman conference hosted by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission last weekend at the C.A. Vines 4-H Center outside of Little Rock. I wanted to think a workshop dedicated to promoting a nonthreatening environment for women…

I met this man, and it was instant attraction. I’m a 40-year-old woman with my own place, a car and a good job, and he’s an ex-convict who served four years in prison for selling meth. He’s very loving, but he has no car or driver’s license (it expired during prison), has a minimum-wage job,…

“Brewing in a lot of ways is like gardening. How cool is it that you can plant a tomato bush and the next thing you know you have full-grown tomatoes? In the same way, you can take raw material and turn it into the world’s greatest beverage.” — Jesse Core, owner and brewer at Core…

By Ginny Masullo On the last Tuesday of every month (except December), the Ozark Poets and Writers Collective hosts a featured reader and open mic. At 7 p.m. this Tuesday, slam poet Houston Hughes is the feature, but he definitely will not be reading to the audience sitting in the Nightbird Books breezeway on Dickson…

As Archangel Michael, the great protector, assumes protection of the Earth, the Sun enters Libra (Autumn Equinox) On Saturday morning at 7:50 a.m. (west coast), sword in hand, as Archangel Michael assumes protection of the Earth, Sun enters Libra and Autumn in northern latitudes begins. We are in the midst of the dark half of…

For years, a group of us girls have gone camping, to dinner, to concerts, etc. Our husbands do their own thing together while we hang out. When they bring a new guy into their circle, they seem to think we should automatically accept his female partner. We normally do because we’re nice like that. The…

Staff Report The Fayetteville Animal Shelter is hosting the “Fall” Into Love Adoption Extravaganza on Saturday, Sept. 22, by lowering the adoption on all pets to $10. The shelter will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “We are excited to invite the community to come to the shelter and see the improvements we…

“What we do here: we don’t base how we run the government on consumer-based government as ‘what’s in it for me?’ We base it on a partnership government that says ‘we’re all partners in this city. How can we all work together?’” — Lioneld Jordan “So what I have to offer is an entrepreneurial…

by Rachel Birdsell I just read in “So, Now You Know” that “a report introduced into the U.S. Senate states that a child will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television before completing elementary school.” I’m not sure if I believe that. The name of the report isn’t given, and whether…